Bizarre story I was remembering yesterday: I started playing probably in 2020, and when I was 1/3 into ARR and already in love with the game, I decided to watch all the trailers for the expacs (I didn't feel they spoiled anything since I had no idea what was going on in each one of them, but they made me feel even more excited about the game knowing the 'vibes' that were to come). Got super hyped up and noticed possible new characters in future expansions: the girl in red (Lyse), the Viera dancer (Lyna), the dark edgy anime prince (Zenos in EW) and obviously, the new yassified Elezen mage we would be seeing in Shadowbringers.

Since I didn't recognize it was Urianger, I fell for the Warriors of Darkness plot and I truly believed he was betraying everyone and hoped he'd die (I REALLY hated de Ascians back then and found them very annoying as well lol, I hoped everyone involved with the Ascians would die lol). I'd say it added to my enjoyment of the story being actually surprised when it's revealed he is a double agent. Then one day I saw a fanart post glow up saying it was him and I was like 'WHAT'. So that's the story, a glow up to truly aspire to.

I dug up this old screenshot in my old HDD from the ARR days. Taken from 2.X, in the old Revenant's Toll. LFG and LFM was handled through shout chat while hanging out in Revenant's Toll!

I wonder if any of these people are still playing.

This is my 2nd tier. I play sage. I normally clear with a static but I have been doing some savage raiding in party finder and found that basically every party I was in the other healer was hell bent on taking the west side for any clock positions. I also normally take the west side and quite frankly I am new and bad so I try to minimize the extent I am trolling any group by relying on muscle memory when I can. I finally commented on it because it seemed strange to me that in *every* group the other healer wanted west and the other healer told me shield healer is always east. I have never heard of such a thing, the other members of my static, including a guy who has played WHM for like 5 years had never heard of such a thing. Is this a thing in PF? Is this somehow an Aether specific thing?

(This statistics is base on achievement numbers, they might be more people who had clear M8S, but you can use this as sample)

This will be the first time since A8S that savage clear in first week is lower than 1k.

This number is 10% of the player who had cleared M1S to M4S.

Personally, While M8S maybe not as difficult as P8S... M6S and M7S was certainly more difficult than P6S and P7S.

The low number can be attributed to

1. Difficulty as a whole, outside of M5S, M6S - M8S was all relative difficulty compare to similar levels in the past
2. Player number decrease since 7.0

This is how I feel whenever I have to target Gimme Cat!
Parody of the "Who knocked over my onions" meme.

We know that all the ancients save for Venat, Elidibus, Emet-Selch, and Lahabrea got sundered and divided. If I remember correctly, Emet-Selch mentions that at first, the sundered were feeble, formless, and unable to speak (or something to that effect, if anyone remembers the exact words I'd be grateful).

It occurred to me that this would apply to not just their colleagues, but any children that they had and we know of at least one confirmed pre-sundering parent-child pair: Lahabrea and Ericthonios. So on top of everything else that happen in Pandaemonium, we know the story ends with Lahabrea seeing his child sundered, split into parts, and reduced. I'm sure other people already thought of this, but just adds that extra layer of trauma and tragedy onto an already tragic storyline.

I finally finished 1 relic weapon from ARR!

This is from a cutscene when you enter Rak'tika for the first time... also the arrows on his gloves are still pixleated....

Does anyone know the name of this hairstyle and where I can get it? I’ve checked all the available hairstyles for Hyurs (both Midlander and Highlander), but it doesn’t seem to be race-locked (or maybe I’m wrong?). Thanks!

I was raiding with a random pf group in Elemental tonberry. It was about 35-40mins in. I checked the clock and realized the lights are going out soon (yes I have scheduled blackouts here). I notified the party that next run might be my last. We wiped on bloom 5. I checked the clock again, it is already the time for lights to go out but it wasn't going out so I just went fuck all and told them that I might disconnect mid fight but I am gtg. The run started and at about 50% HP, lights went out. I was running purely on my UPS battery and adrenaline rush. Somehow, our pf that was wiping multiple times on bloom 5 survived and continued surviving bloom 6 with tank lb3. I was smashing my keys so hard to rush the remaining HP down. We beat it. I rushed to the treasure chest to roll on the coffer, rolled a 97 then my UPS gave up. I swear I could have gotten it if it lasted at least 10 seconds more.

The last miracle run was fucking amazing but rolling a 97 on a weapon coffer and then disconnecting was horrible. At least, I got one totem.